Even the most preliminary studies of the Mayans will tell you they were a very…
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Adolf Hitler, Chairman Mao, Joseph Stalin … we tend to remember the names of the…
The French Revolution is regarded as being instrumental in the foundation of modern democracies and…
War, what is it good for? Gaffes and blunders, apparently. Whether it’s overconfidence, miscalculations, a…
When someone simply vanishes, the mystery surrounding the disappearance makes you doubt a series of…
A famine is defined as a severe shortage of food that results in starvation and…
Before the outbreak of World War I, Adolf Hitler was a practicing artist. On two separate occasions,…
After the German invasion of Poland on September 1, 1939, the British RAF assembled several…
We laugh at the idea of Orson Welles convincing otherwise intelligent adults that Martians were…
When people think of Ancient Greek contributions to the world, they usually think of Democracy,…
Most Americans like to think their military is a tool for preserving the freedom and…
When Billy Joel sang “We Didn’t Start the Fire,” people enthusiastically sung along and tried…
Some battles and sieges were bloody, others were outright massacres – massacres which saw more…
The goal of any state is to survive the test of time. Some states have…
As we’ve already talked about Poland wasn’t actually that nice of a country before it…
While Hollywood presents assassins and assassinations in various outlandish and implausible ways, they do manage…
On August 6th, 1945, the world was changed forever by a weapon capable of wiping…
World War II was a horrible conflict, which engulfed much of the known world. Known…
Oliver Cromwell hated so many things that brought people joy, scientists still aren’t sure if he was an internet troll who stumbled
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The mystical realms of Fairy tales, leading us to an imaginary world of fantasy, never…
1800 did not look one thing like 1899, thanks to incredible advancements in both technology and society. It’s odd to think about it at first, especially since photos from that century are rare, and voice recordings are even rarer. But amazing things happened over those hundred years, just about every day. Here are ten of the most news-worthy stories of the bunch.
Museums and libraries are human treasures, but they aren’t eternal. All it takes is one well-timed disaster, man-made or otherwise, and the entire thing could go up in flames. Today, we focus on the man-made disasters, those cases where people actively, and successfully, destroyed human knowledge and delayed our advancement as a species.
For the most part, ghosts tend to lurk in obscurity, content to haunt random old buildings and curse sports teams that they don’t like. Some ghosts, however, crave the spotlight a bit more, and so they take up residence in some fairly famous locales. If you visit any of these places, don’t be surprised when the wind turns violent and freezing cold.
Espionage is something just about every country takes part in, even though it’s illegal in just about every country. The United States, being the biggest superpower on Earth, is no exception. Th number of foreign spies that attempt to infiltrate America’s ranks is truly mind-boggling. Here are ten of the most famous cases.